Territory



(No Model.)

J. A. FITZGERALD.

GAME APPARATUS.

No. 308,147. Patented NOV. 18, 1884.

S E S S E ATTORNEYS.

Nr'rED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMEs A. FITZGERALD, oEsALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,147, dated November18, 1884.

Application filed March 25, 1884. (No model.) I

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Laws A. FITZGER- ALI), of Salt Lake City, in thecounty of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, have invented a new andImproved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved game whichcan be played by one or more persons.

The invention consists in agame apparatus formed of a vertically-slottedboard 'held between two side pieces or standards. Rubber face-plates aresecured on the surfaces of the bars between the slots, and the game isplayed with a series of disks or flat rollers.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face View of my improved game. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectionalelevation of the same on the line a; m Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a face view andcross-sectional view of the roller or disk used in playing my new game.

Between two side pieces or standards, A, a board, B, formed of twosections united at the middle, is held, which is provided with a seriesof vertical slots, a, extending from'the bottom edge upward, the middleslot being highest, and the height of the other slots graduallydecreasing toward the ends of the board. The bars I) between the slotsare covered with rubber G on both the front and rear surfaces, as shownin Fig. 2. Thestandards or side pieces, A, are also united by a board,D, or strip of canvas or other material acting as a bumper.

For playing the game disks or rollers E are used, the thickness of whichis less than the width of the slots, and which disks are weighted at thecenters by pieces of lead F. The several slots a are numbered, as shown,

and in playing the game the player endeavors to roll one or more disks Ethrough a given slot, or through the several slots successively, thedisks running against the board or bumper D after passing through theslots a. The sections of the boards B and D and the standards A caneasily be taken apart and folded together when the game is not in use,and can be erected easily and rapidly. The rubber facing protects thebars I) from being broken if the disks strike them.

The disk E, instead of being made fiat, may decrease in thickness fromthe center toward the rim. The board and standard, as alsothe disk, maybe made of any suitable material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A game apparatusconsisting of a board provided with a series ofvertical slots and held between two side pieces 'or standards,substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination, with the board B, havingvertical slots a, forming bars I), of the side pieces or standards, A,and the rubber facing O on the said bars, substantially as herein shownand described.

3. In a game apparatus, the combination, with the board B, havingvertical slots at, of the side pieces or standards, A, and of the boardor bumper D, substantially as herein shown and described.

4:. In a game, the combination, with the board B, having aseries ofvertical'slots, a, of the end pieces or standards, A, and a series ofdisks, E, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMEs A. FITZGERALD.

Witnesses:

ARNOLD WALL, J. J. OTooLE.

